I asked a genuine question and had replies that ignored the question I asked and insulted me and said my question was stupid. My reply telling them to stop being rude and answer the question if they want to comment was removed by the mods.
You got a lot of genuine replies engaging with your thoughts. I’d focus on that over the negative.
I think your absolutely right that people shouldn’t call a question stupid in c/nostupidquestions. But they can and should criticise a question for being a rant disguised as a question (eg. “Why are X people so stupid?”). More borderline is a questions that maybe meant in good faith but seems to have so many problematic assumptions built-in, that it’s difficult to even engage with fairly. It might not be a stupid question, but it’s been phrased in a way that makes so many wrong assumptions, that answering it becomes an unnecessarily difficult chore.
I saw your question about veganism, and I can imagine some people took it as way of poking vegans. Vegans get a lot of hassle online, and are often asked to justify this or that, so asking “why don’t they eat roadkill” (in so many words) could be seen as not coming from a genuine place of curiosity. I’m not saying your question wasn’t genuine, but I can imagine that other people thought so.
I do think your question falls into the “too many dumb assumptions”. There were responses along the lines of “vegans don’t eat meat, so of course they don’t eat meat that has died naturally”. And you responded with “I meant the philosophy not the diet”. If that’s true, then it was a “badly phrased” question, not a “stupid” one.
Nostupidquestions is meant to be a place to ask questions that you feel like you should know, or everyone else seems to know. If you ask confusing or misleading questions, it’s reasonable for people to respond with “that’s not what veganism means” or whatever. But I do 100% think people shouldn’t say it’s a stupid question (although, having read through the thread I don’t see anyone saying that to you…)
Imo the theme is questions that you’re slightly embarrassed to ask because you think you should already know it. Thinly disguised rants, sea lioning, and fetish exploration (yes I’ve seen that here) don’t qualify.
Basically a lot of the posts here are in bad faith and hide behind the same premise OP is pushing.
I mean, the problem isn’t that OP’s question was stupid. The problem is that it is rude to question people’s religious practices.
Veganism is a religion now?
people who claim veganism is a religion do so in blind belief to dismiss it as irrational to avoid going over the moral and factual arguments it presents, most vegans became one due to evidence be that a documentary showing the meat/dairy industry cruelties. if standing against violence makes someone seem religious, maybe we need a lot more of it
It’s often framed as a system of moral philosophies and the way the impact our behavior and interactions with the world and society. So yes, in many ways, veganism is a religion, or at the very least religion adjacent. Religions aren’t limited to belief in a magical sky daddy.
To be clear, it is clearly bigotry to use “religion” as a label in an effort to be dismissive of anyone’s personal moral belief system or philosophy.
Several of the answers were interesting because they seemed to focus on social perceptions and how others would see them. I got very much “convert the heathens” vibes off some of them - but it’s probably a “broad church” within that population who associate with the term. Need some schisms and sub-sects to form, like orthodox, reformist, catholic , protestant to get terminology that represents the diversity of beliefs. I’m not sure internet will allow that once a term has meme value.
Either way it was quite interesting to me because i’m generally against animal killing and cruelty and I don’t like animal testing, even for medical research, which some people think is quite extreme. But i really don’t give a fuck what other people think; about as much as i expect them to give a shit about me.
There’s always tradeoffs, and hide glue has some extremely good characteristics so i’d use that gladly. But i must accept that if someone needs some glue (or just a snack) and they find my corpse - have at it.
Always was
and had replies that ignored the question I asked and insulted me and said my question was stupid
No you didn’t…
https://lemmy.world/post/39082490
My reply telling them to stop being rude and answer the question if they want to comment was removed by the mods.
Looking at the modlog, you had one comment removed for being flippant and not contributing to the conversation. Which is what you’re claiming doesn’t happen…
“Remember, there are no stupid questions, just stupid children”
Why are you asking this question? It sounds more like a rant.
I’m sure you know moderation is neither instantaneous nor perfect. So that makes this a rant instead if a genuine question.
I tried to find out what you were referring to - was it the rude person in the vegan thread? If you look, they were pretty heavily rebutted and downvoted by the other users.
The mods uphold the community guidelines, ideally without overreach. If someone’s out of line, but not technically breaking any rules, the other users are usually good at putting people straight.
I find this question VERY stupid, and I’m sure I’m NOT the only one.
Can’t speak for the mods, but I think people who subscribe here also subscribe to the AskLemmy type communities and they don’t look at what community they’re in.
Mods will do what mods will do. I think users should just downvote unhelpful comments anyway. I myself have voting (both ways) enabled, but I don’t see numbers or vote weight, but I think a lot of people do. So I don’t fully participate in the voting, but that is what it’s for.
Some communities have downvoting disabled, but as an alternative to downvoting, you can also just not upvote the comment or report it if it actually breaks rules. I don’t think being rude in the comments is against the rules, but it isn’t nice, so I usually just ignore those comments.
Moderation isn’t instantaneous. Reports help make it faster.
Outside of your question, there has been some rage bait:
https://lemmyverse.link/lemmy.world/post/38413203
I think it would be appropriate for these conversations to be flagged and locked. I thought there was a lot more, but it seems to have been a while.
The community name is asperational, maybe someday it will be reality.
Have you ever heard the expression/joke:
There’s no stupid questions, except that one?
I take it that way. And mods can only work so fast, like others have said.
For what it’s worth, I think you had an interesting question in the other thread and most of the replies were overall either unhelpful, dumb in-and-of-themselves, or aggressive in the way that shows a person is just angry cause they can’t answer for their own beliefs in a good way and they know it
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No Stupid Questionswith thats stupid.Flag it with the mods!
